ICT 2018: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe, the key European ICT research and innovation event organised by the European Commission, will take place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. The Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will host the next ICT event at the Austria Center Vienna. The ICT events organised by the European Commission since 1998 have become Europe's most visible international forum for ICT innovation, and a unique gathering of the entire ICT research and innovation community.

The 2018 edition of this major networking event will have the following main components:

a conference on digital research and innovation policies

an exhibition of EU-funded research and innovation projects in the field of ICT

a series of networking activities

an innovation and start-ups village to showcase European entrepreneurship.

The event will also cover European research policy, including panel discussions on the various instruments for the European research area.